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Re: hole in turbolinux 1.2 default xinitrc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri May 1 20:03:36 1998

Date: 	Fri, 1 May 1998 23:37:32 +0100
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
X-To:         jbrand@WILLY.WSC.EDU
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980501155756.17160A-100000@willy.wsc.edu> from
              "Jeremy Brand" at May 1, 98 04:01:11 pm

> Anyone running X11 on a turbo linux 1.2 system (who has not modified
> anything) is most likely affected.
>
> I attempted to notify the author here first, but it bounced... so here you
> go.
>
> this is the default xinitrc on Turbolinux 1.2 systems.  anyone see a hole?
> being that Turbolinux 1.2 is based on Red Hat 5, RH5 may have this hole
> too.

Apparently not. Just checked

xinitrc-1.3-5

contains no xhost references.

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